The World of Leth (commission, WIP)

[Voolf]

Truly stunning. So many great things you've added to increase the depth of this map. Brings tears to my eyes after 30 years of not changing.

Happy client is the best what you can get. Glad those are tears of joy, not sadness....

I notice the rivers are a dark blue whereas all the other water is a completely different shade, is this intentional to highlight the rivers?

No damon, it is not intentional. I always get those kind of questinos from the very first wip map i posted here (probably light challande). I do my maps in stages (like everyone lol) by filling in colours or contours of all things that will be in the map. Later i start working on some part of it, leaving everything else. After i complete one part i move to another. Results are that during wip i may for example have almost finished land but forest still has only outlines etc.

So to answer your question, rivers, sea and forests are just filled with random colors to give the idea and separate them from land texture during shading process. I will work on them later channging colors, shading etc.